The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered numerous institutional shortcomings, however, most importantly, it has demonstrated that the United Nations is in dire need of change. It is high time to reform the United Nations.

Specifically, the reaction of the World Health Organization – the UN's worldwide wellbeing office – to the infection has uncovered evident weaknesses, which mirror an absence of global agreement and participation, just as far-reaching protectionism with respect to its partners.

No place has analysis of the WHO been stronger or more articulated than in the United States, where President Donald Trump's ongoing choice to freeze US subsidizing for the association conveyed a staggering blow when it was urgently needing help. What the UN does straightaway, and how it recuperates from its inability to organize adequately during the COVID-19 emergency, will decide its job in the post-pandemic world.

I view myself as a child of the UN and a big fan of its qualities and standards. Over a time of over four decades, I embraced different jobs inside its mammoth administration, beginning in 1974 with my arrangement as Qatar's representative to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and consummation in 2017, when I bombed by a solitary vote to become UNESCO Director-General.

For quite a bit of this time, the UN reliably gave plan to a superior future. Its particular offices and associations assumed a crucial job in safeguarding world harmony, forestalling global clashes, wiping out imperialism, and securing human rights.

All the more as of late, be that as it may, the UN's job has been consistently declining, and its effect on world occasions and governments has melted away. When the world's pre-prominent mediator and authority, it has gotten excessively obliged by old ideas and precepts to be the genuinely compelling, community worldwide overseeing body that its originators imagined.

It can no longer impart regard among governments for worldwide authenticity, universal law, and the upkeep of worldwide harmony and security, as it did after both World War II and the breakdown of the Soviet Union, for instance.

Set forth plainly, the world has changed and the UN has neglected to keep up. The twenty-first century's turbo-charged political, financial, and social ease has left the once-ground-breaking association uncovered, with hardly any companions left to shield it.

Yet, this decrease doesn't imply that the UN is bound for history's garbage dump. In the event that the past is any guide, the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic – a calamitous disappointment of worldwide governmental issues – is probably going to introduce a time of noteworthy change all through the world. I accept we are making a beeline for another and increasingly different worldwide request, in which universal administration is not, at this point driven by any one nation or set of political qualities.

During the COVID-19 emergency, global solidarity has fizzled, as every nation has looked to ensure its own advantages. At the point when the world, in the end, rises up out of the pandemic, there will be examinations, blame dealing, and in any event, scapegoating. The UN should face this hardship, however, I believe that, at long last, it will be helped by restored gratefulness for the aggregate network that we recently endeavored to fabricate.

All things considered, this time of retribution will be hard for the UN, since extreme choices should be made. The association should relinquish its old mentality and move in headings that it might discover awkward.

For instance, bodies, for example, UNESCO should show their commitment to the world all the more unmistakably. Since instruction, science, and culture will be basic to the post-pandemic recuperation, UNESCO's pioneers must ask themselves testing inquiries: What are we doing to save social qualities?

How might we secure human rights, including the privilege of training? How might we lead mainstream researchers and forestall another pandemic? Ought to there be an increasingly territorial expansion to guarantee it serves all part states and does the initiative mirror this? Just by tending to such difficulties effectively will UNESCO and other UN offices stay applicable in a post-COVID-19 world.

Change of the UN should begin at the top with the Security Council, whose five perpetual individuals – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US – keep on applying veto-employing power similar to a past age. Extending the Council's lasting participation to incorporate different nations – from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East – would convey an increasingly evenhanded parity to worldwide dynamics.

What's more, such change is advocated. For instance, India is set to turn into the world's most crowded nation during this decade, Japan has the world's third-biggest economy, and South Africa and Nigeria have by a wide margin the biggest economies in the landmass with the quickest developing populace.

Similarly, UN organizations need to guarantee that residents of the nation in which they are based don't fill their top positions. Time and again, an association's decision of initiative raises doubt about its authenticity and autonomy. We need to look no farther than my own locale – the Middle East – to see the unsafe impacts that such choices can have.

The COVID-19 pandemic should fill in as the fundamental beginning stage for UN change. On the off chance that it doesn't, at that point I dread that the association to which I committed a lot of my expert vocation, and whose qualities I hold in the most noteworthy respect, will be not able to locate a protected spot in this day and age, not to mention recapture its previous wonder.